Rail-joint.



PATENTED SEPT. 8, 1908.

C. L. MoVOY.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED 0014, 1907.

CHARLES L. McVOY, OF PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 8, 19.08.

Application filed October 4, 1907. Serial No. 395,949.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it-known that I, CHARLES L. MoV Y, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pensacola, in the county of Escambia and State of Florida,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to the improvements in steel rails and isrimarily designed in order to provide an eflbctive joint between theabutting ends of the rails in such manner that not only are the railends secured togethiybut alsothat the rails at their joints arereinferced against lateral strain.

Other objects and advantages of the inven tion will'be observed from thefollowing descriptionand the novel features will be more succinctlpointed out in the claims,

Broady speaking, the invention "com prises the provision of a projectionor tongue disposed longitudinally of the Web and adaptedilto restbeneath the tread of the opposite ra While I do not restrict myself tothe exact details shown and described, still for the purpose ofdisclosure, reference is had to the accompanying drawings illustratin apractical embodiment of the invention an in which- Figure 1. is aperspective view of a portion of a pair of rails constructed'inaccordance with my invention and the abutting ends of which are fittedand bolted together. Fig. 2. is a disassociated view of thecomplementary ends of the rails to be joined, Fig. 3. is a transversesectional view through the rail joint, and Fig. 4 is a perspective viewshowing more clearly the shoulder formed by the vertical web of the railand the side tongue.

In the drawings there is illustrated the usual form of rail, comprisingthe tread 1, the base flange 2, and the vertical web 3. The vertical web3, is provided near its end with an enlarged reinforcing portionextending longitudinally beyond the end of the rail as at 5, formin atongue. It will be observed that each rail at their abutting ends may beprovided with one of these reinforced portions and extending tongues onopposite sides, and the other ends of the rails may be similarlyprovided with the same parts reversed.

When assembled, as clearly shown, the

- ends of the abutting vertical webs as at 6, and

the ends of the treads and base flanges, will lie substantially in thesame vertical plane, and the tongues or extensions 5, will project onopposite sides within the space formed between the tread and baseflange, so that these tongues 5, will lie snugl against the sides of thevertical web and will when bolted in povsition cooperate with theintegral enlargement on the opposite side of the web to form a iigidreinforcement at the joinder of the rar s.

One of the rails and extensions may have squared apertures therein, asat7, to receive the squared heads of bolts, and the other rail maysimply have round bolt holes 8, alining with the squared ones. Throughthese alining bolt holes are passed the usual bolts 9, for securin theends of the rail together. Of course, t e squared bolt holes are merelya matter of detail and may be round if desired.

I am aware of the fac that there may be patents havin rojecting tonguesat the ends of the raiFs, ut these constructions are not the same as theresent invention and they will not accomplish the same results. Forinstance, under the old constructions such a rail could not beassociated with an ordinary rail because the projecting end would throwthe tread portions out of alinement. In the present construction,however, the arrangement is such that the tread portion would remain inalinement, and in consequence the rail could be associated with a railof the ordinary type, a fish plate bein used for the projecting tongueof the old rai What I claim is 1. A rail joint composed of two abuttingrail ends each consisting of a base flange, an intervening web and atread, each of which parts are continuous and extend to the extreme railend; said rail ends also provided on opposite sides thereof withintegral side tongues, extending longitudinally beyond the rail endsproper; each of which tongues are adapted to fit snugly between thetreads and base flanges of said rail ends and to be supported -by saidbase flanges throughout their whole length; and suitable fasteningspassing through said webs and tongues; whereby each rail end issupported by the base flange of the other throughout the extent of itsprojecting tongue, substantially as described.

2. In a rail joint the combination of a pair of rails, each comprising abase flan e, a tread and an intervening web all terminating in the samevertical plane at the res ective ends of said rails, and each of saidrai s being pro- Vided at their ends, on opposite sides, with aperturedtongues 5 extending longitudinally beyond the end of the rail anddisposed parallel to but out of alinement with the Web portion andforming with said web the shoulder 6, and bolts cooperating withapertures in said tongues and with apertures formed in said Webs tosecurely bolt said tongues to the webs of their opposed rail with thetongues 1 'n snugly ainst the webs and base fl singes on op p ositesides for their whole lengths, whereby each rail end is supported by thebase flange of the other, substantially 15 as described.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in presence of twoWitnesses.

CHARLES L. MoVOY. Witnesses:

W. A. BLoUNT, K. B. RADCLIFFE.

